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Gina:
Hey Claudia,

Is that the "Different Loves" audio?  That was very good.  It was such an eye opener for me (as with everything else). 

gk, I'm glad you're still here:  http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,14197.0.html   :)

ez2u:
the MC Coy's was my grand mothers mothers' side of the family  Harriet Allen Chapman  the Allen's and MCCoys married  the stories that my grandmother told me was nothing like this movie  drama

onelovedread:
Just finished watching the movie, which I found absorbing.
Totally blown away by the way "christianity" was used as the reason to perpetrate hateful actions on one's foes. I can not understand how Randall McCoy could 'lose his faith' when most of his actions were faithless from the beginning. There was a decided lack of love throughout with families disowning members, and in one case the suggestion that a father would think about murdering his own son. I am not judging since there are still instances of hypocrisy in our personal lives (at least in mine), but I was blown away by the temerity of some of the characters (like Phillips) describing themselves as christians.

Gina:
I never saw the movie, but what OneLove (John) said is what went through my mind, too.  I come from Maryland and I knew all about the story of the Hatfields and the McCoys. 

I was taught to believe that the Hatfields interbred with their kin, likewise the McCoys interbred with their kin, because they wanted to keep their money in their families.  But I'm not sure how true that is or if it was mentioned in the movie you all saw. 

Interbreeding is a major cause of mental (and emotional and I would imagine physical) illness.  So much so that the Italian government is one country in Europe that forbids interbreeding because of it.  People in Italy (like the Hs & Ms) stay in their little towns and villages and never leave and consequently they've interbred to the point that they're more than a little nutso.  And now, Italians who want to marry must go through extensive blood testing to be sure they aren't "kissin cousins."

But those things can apparently be outbred.  I was friends with a descendent of the Hatfields in Maryland when I was a teenager; we went to junior high and high school together.  She was smart, and the sweetest, prettiest, quietest, lady-likest thing you evuh done saw --  really.  She was about 5 feet tall with dark brown hair, BIG blue eyes, and milk ivory skin.  I'll never forget her.

Joel:
I saw the series and thought it made interesting entertainment.
Historically it seemed to be biased, seeing as to how Kevin Costner played Anse Hatfield, and the movie was seen more from that perspective.
That time during and after the civil war brought a lot of lively characters to the public forefront, and it is very evident that loving your neighbor as yourself was not one of their best virtues.

Joel

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